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Reponses by students and staff at West Craven Middle School.

What will the library of the future look like in 2020?

1) "The future library will have floating shelves."



2) "The library and school will be paperless."



3) "The media coordinator will be in the classrooms more."


4) "There will be only digital books that you can check out online."


5) "There will be an automated book sorter and people can just call a book to come to them."
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Carol Johnson (Click to hear audio version)
What will the library of the future look like? That will depend on the imaginations of the teacher librarian and the school staff. All libraries will look as different as they do today; evolving to fit the needs of their community. Some will have wifi, flat screens, virtual classrooms, iPads and automated book sorting stations. Others will contain books, laptops, iPods and a video production studio. One thing is certain, media centers will always be filled with caring individuals who use effective pedagogy to infuse knowledge and a love of reading into their student's lives.